Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

You look especially beautiful this morning, Monza."That brought a smile to the corner of her mouth. The corner he couldn't see. "Well. Facts are facts.

People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.

Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.

My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That's what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.

One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.

I would die at the stake rather than change a semi-colon!

The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.

Everyone understands that [democrat Senator Harry Reid] is deliberately lying. The man reads his lies from prepared texts. You can't read from a script and then claim you misspoke.

True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.

From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.